The ecological discourse and the debate on the organizational modernization remain fairly independent. This refers not at last to the disciplinary and self-referential structure of academic science. If the divergent and separated research activities and results allow to derive some hypotheses about the relation between new forms of work and ecological responsibility, they can be condensed in two points. First, the processes of organizational decentralization and empowerment augment employee’s chances to act according to ecological goals, if they are recognized as relevant by the company or by the worker himself. Second, the tendency of economic deregulation within companies implies a strong pressure on the employees to utilize their „new autonomy“ in the first place to meet economic constraints. As a tendency, this impedes ecological responsibility, if it doesn’t contribute directly to economic criteria, or it cannot refer to external constraints (legal or legitimate). A first conclusion with respect to work policies would be to increase efforts on legal and marked-based environmental policies which create equal conditions for all actors. A second conclusion, concerning academic science, would be to institutionalize the links between the ecological discourse and the work debate, e.g. in research projects, research institutes, conferences, etc.